Zbigniew Brzezinski, former
national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter,
died Friday at a hospital in
Virginia at the age of 89.

Though the New
York Timesacknowledged that the former government advisor was a
"hawkish strategic theorist," misrepresenting his legacy as one of
otherwise infinite positivity may not be as easy as the
establishment might like to think.

As the United
Kingdom
plays around with levels of the so-called "terror threat"
following a devastating attack by an ISIS-inspired individual - and
as the Philippines goes into an
almost complete state of martial law following ISIS-inspired
destruction - Brzezinski's timely death serves as a reminder to seek
a deeper understanding of where modern terrorism originated in the
first place.

As the New York
Times explains, Brzezinski's "rigid hatred of the Soviet Union"
guided much of America's foreign policy "for better or worse."

He tacitly
encouraged China to continue backing the murderous regime of Pol
Pot in Cambodia, lest the Soviet-backed Vietnamese take over
that country."

While it is
progressive of the New York Times to note Brzezinski's
support for Islamic militants, downplaying the effect of his
vindictive foreign policy agenda with a mere sentence does an
injustice to the true horror behind Brzezinski's policies.

Because a 1973 coup
in Afghanistan had installed a new secular government that was
leaning towards the Soviets, the U.S. endeavored to undermine this
new government by organizing
multiple coup attempts through America's lackey states, Pakistan
and Iran (the latter was under the control of the U.S.-backed
Shah at the time.)

In July 1979,
Brzezinski officially
authorized aid to the mujahidin rebels in Afghanistan to be
delivered through the CIA's program "Operation Cyclone."

Many people defend
America's decision to arm the mujahidin in Afghanistan because they
believe it was necessary to defend the country and the wider region
from Soviet aggression.

However, Brzesinski's own statements
directly contradict this rationale.

In a 1998
interview, Brzezinski
admitted that in conducting this operation, the Carter
administration had "knowingly increased the probability" that the
Soviets would intervene militarily (suggesting they began arming the
Islamist factions before the Soviets invaded, making the rationale
redundant since there was no invasion Afghanistan freedom fighters
needed to repel at the time).

Brzezinski then
stated:

"Regret what?
That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect
of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to
regret it?

The day that
the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President
Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its
Vietnam war."

This statement went
further than merely boasting at the instigation of war and the
ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

In his memoir,
entitled "From the Shadows,"
Robert Gates - former CIA director
under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and secretary of defense
under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama - directly
confirmed this covert operation began six months prior to the
Soviet invasion with the actual intention of luring the Soviets
into a Vietnam-style quagmire.

Brzezinski knew
exactly what he was doing.

The Soviets were then bogged down in
Afghanistan for approximately ten years, fighting an endless supply
of American-supplied weapons and trained fighters. At the time, the
media even went so far as to
laud Osama bin Laden - one of the most influential figures in
Brzezinski's covert operation.

We all know how
that story ended.

Even with full
knowledge of what his CIA-funded creation had become, in 1998
Brzezinski
stated the following to his interviewers:

"What is most
important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the
collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the
liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?"

The interviewer at
the time, refusing to allow this answer to pass, retorted:

"Some
stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic
fundamentalism represents a world menace today."

Brzezinski
dismissed this statement outright, replying:

"Nonsense!"

This occurred back
when the journalists asked government officials pressing questions,
a rare occurrence today.

Brzezinski's
support for these radical elements led directly to the
formation of al-Qaeda, which literally translates to "the base,"
as it was the base in which to launch the repulsion of the
anticipated Soviet invasion.

It also led to the creation of
the Taliban, a deadly entity currently deadlocked in an endless
battle with NATO forces.

Further, despite
Brzezinski's statements, which attempt to depict a lasting defeat of
the Russian empire, the truth is that for Brzezinski, the cold war
never ended.

It is no
coincidence that in Syria, the
Obama administration deployed an
Afghanistan-quagmire-type strategy toward another Russian ally -
Assad in Syria.

A cable leaked by Wikileaks dated December 2006,
authored by William Roebuck, who was chargé d'affaires at the
US embassy in Damascus at the time,
stated:

"We believe
Bashar's weaknesses are in how he chooses to react to looming
issues, both perceived and real, such as the conflict between
economic reform steps (however limited) and entrenched, corrupt
forces, the Kurdish question, and the potential threat to the
regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist
extremists.

This cable
summarizes our assessment of these vulnerabilities and suggests
that there may be actions, statements, and signals that the USG
can send that will improve the likelihood of such opportunities
arising."

Just like in
Afghanistan, the Syrian war formally drew in Russia in 2015, and
Brzezinski's legacy was kept alive through Obama's
direct warning to Russia's Vladimir Putin that he was leading
Russia into another Afghanistan-style quagmire.

However, he still
seemed to indicate that without America's global leadership role,
the result would be "global chaos," so it seemed unlikely his change
in perception was rooted in any actual meaningful change on the
geopolitical chessboard.

Further, the CIA's
very existence relies on the idea of a Russian threat, as has been
evidenced by the agency's
complete
assault on the Trump administration whenever it appears détente
is possible with the former Soviet Union.

Brzezinski died
safely in a hospital bed, unlike the millions of displaced and
murdered civilians who were pawns in Brzezinski's twisted,
geopolitical chess games of blood and lunacy.

Arming the
Mujahideen in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviets, transforming Iran
into an anti-Western republic, and the brokering of the Camp David
Accords - are among the best known outcomes of his strategies.

Brzezinski
inadvertently helped create Al-Qaeda, when he convinced President
Carter that running a secret CIA program to launch a proxy-war
against the USSR-backed Afghan government was going to,

"induce a Soviet military
intervention."

"We didn't push the
Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the
probability that they would,"
he
said in a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur.

"The day that the Soviets
officially crossed the border, I wrote to President
Carter, essentially:

'We now have the
opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war'."

"That secret operation was
an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the
Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret
it?" he told
the interviewer.

"What is more important in
world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet
empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central
Europe and the end of the cold war?"

Brzezinski was born
in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, according to official biography.

Other sources
speculate that he was actually born in a Polish Consulate in the
Ukrainian town of Kharkov, which at the time was part of the USSR,
but his parents registered him as having been born in Poland and not
the Soviet Union.

He graduated
from Harvard with a PhD in political science with a thesis on
the formation of a totalitarian system in the USSR - and became
author of a global strategy on anti-Communism and the concept of
a new form of American hegemony.

"The defeat and collapse of
the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance
of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States, as the
sole and, indeed, the first truly global power,"
Brzezinski wrote in his 1998 book
The Grand Chessboard.

"no longer the globally
imperial power" and "can only be effective in
dealing with the current Middle Eastern violence if it
forges a coalition that involves, in varying degrees, also
Russia and China."

In the sixties,
he served as an advisor to the Kennedy and Johnson
administrations and his tough stance towards the Soviet Union
never waned.

In the Carter
years, Brzezinski became National Security advisor and was
considered the president's right-hand man. During the Clinton
administration, the hawkish statesman was the main voice pushing
for NATO's eastward expansion.